Stephen M. Fisher

Overview

Professional Profile

Steve Fisher focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions and venture capital financing transactions. His M&A experience includes domestic and cross-border transactions, public and private company mergers, stock and asset sales and purchases, tender offers and exchange offers. Steve also advises financial and strategic investors in venture capital financings for early and late stage technology companies.

Representative Transactions:

$8.6 billion acquisition by Tencent of a majority stake in Supercell

$4.4 billion acquisition by a consortium led by Shanghai Giant Network Technology Co. (China) of Playtika from Caesars Interactive Entertainment

$4.0 billion acquisition of Cepheid by Danaher

$320 million acquisition of Leaba Semiconductor (Israel) by Cisco Systems

Multiple acquisitions for Facebook

Acquisition of Liquid Robotics by Boeing

Acquisition of Inauth by American Express

Acquisition of Opsmatic by New Relic

Acquisition of Fliptop by LinkedIn

Acquisition of OpenDNS by Cisco Systems

Steve was named a Rising Star in the 2016 edition of Northern California Super Lawyers.

Following law school, he served a one year term as Law Clerk to the Honorable Ralph K. Winter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.​